Then the king said, "But [is] there still anyone of Saul's household that I may show the loyal love of God with him?" And Ziba said to the king, "There [is] still a son of Jonathan [who is] lame in the feet."

to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.

For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.

For the bed is too short {to stretch out on}, and the covering is [too] narrow when wrapping oneself.

he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him.

He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but [is] for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but is at an end!

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness {forever}, but is guilty of [an] eternal sin"--

And he said to them, "Surely a lamp is not brought so that it may be put under a bushel basket or under a bed, [is it]? [Is it] not so that it may be put on a lampstand?

And [when he] entered, he said to them, "Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping."

but to sit at my right hand or at [my] left is not mine to grant, but [is] for those for whom it has been prepared."

And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping."

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.

Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed {only needs} to wash [his] feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all [of you]."

since you are demanding proof that Christ, who [is] not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same [things] to you [is] not troublesome to me, but [is] a safeguard for you.

And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also [was].

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, [because he] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.